Why should you order trusts from DBA Lawyers?

Introduction

While DBA is recognised as Australia’s leading SMSF law firm, it is also well known for it’s great depth of tax and trusts expertise.

In particular, DBA Lawyers offers an excellent discretionary trust deed that is easy to read, provides great flexibility and reflects the latest legislative changes. Also included is a detailed memo, trustee resolutions, covering letter and completion checklist.

The detailed memo includes a summary of the foreign trust purchaser duty and land tax surcharge for the relevant States and Territories. We explain, among other things, when a trust is treated as a foreign trust, when extra foreign duty or extra land tax applies and the key rules and concessions.

What’s in DBA’s discretionary trust package?

Below is a brief summary of the advantages of DBA Lawyers’ discretionary trust package:

We provide quality trust documents with the latest planning strategies (eg, streaming of income and power to allocate expenses to different categories of income).

We work at the coal face handling technical queries on a daily basis and drafting various related trust documents. We also provide ongoing technical support and assistance.

Our trust deeds minimise the potential for extra duty and extra land tax in respect of real property by excluding certain ‘foreign beneficiaries’. As noted above, the memo provides a summary of the extra taxes in various States and Territories.

Our documents are easy to read and easy administer and our lawyers can tailor special changes to suit your particular requirements.

Our documents are regularly reviewed and revised as needed.

DBA Lawyers is committed to providing quality documents and excellent service and our documents are prepared and signed-off by a lawyer. As a trust deed typically has a very long lifespan (up to 80+ years), why settle for anything less.

This article is for general information only and should not be relied upon without first seeking advice from an appropriately qualified professional. The above does not constitute financial product advice. Financial product advice can only be obtained from a licenced financial adviser under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

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As a law firm DBA Lawyers Pty Ltd is not licensed to give financial product advice under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).